Day: July 17, 2025

Lust again

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Beware of getting into hot water in your bikini
A few weeks after Annie moved into the  lovely house next door to Stan,he met her when he was seeing his wife off to work.
Why does Mary not have a car? Annie enquired suspiciously.
She is trying to keep slim,Stan told her.
Well,she’s not been very successful,Annie said scientifically.
She might be much fatter than she is now if she drove a car,he stated ponderously
That’s true,muttered Annie loudly.I am your new next door neighbor.
Yes,said Stan,I have seen you sunbathing in the garden in your bikinis.
How come? she asked merrily yet sternly
There’s a big hole in the fence.He said
Is it legal to look at women through a hole in the fence?asked Annie.I know it’s illegal to look into their bedroom windows.
Is it really,asked Stan nervously,I had no idea.How about women looking at men through a round hole in a fence or square one?
Oh,they are not  very keen to do that,she lied charmingly.
Well,said Stan,clearing his throat,I think I owe it to myself to tell you that I love you.
Wow,you’re quick off the mark,the lady said saucily.What do you mean,you owe it to yourself? she continued in a puzzled tone.
Nothing,said Stan,I could not think how to word it.I mean I wish to unselfishly love you and admire your ripe body and your cute sense of color.I love your teal trouser suit.And you sing so well in the bath.I can hear you.
You didn’t mean you owe it to yourself to take advantage of me?
Not unless you want me to take advantage of you,the gallant old man informed her kindly
And you can take advantage of me, he said I make cakes and biscuits,wholemeal bread and I am training my cat Emile to do statistics on an i pad.
How extraordinary,Annie whispered.I didn’t know cats had an “I.” let alone pads.
Well,they have pads on their paws,he informed her intelligently.
True,she said,but where are their I’s?
Where are our I’s ? he responded in a manner to rejoice the heart of Mary Midgley or Susanne Langer two of Stan’s favourite writers on philosophy,logic,symbols and ethics.
Not that he practised the Ethics but he liked to know what he was doing wrong.It’s more fun that way.If you sin,sin big!
A man who seduces women merrily one after the other may have no idea it might be wrong.Neither might the women.Why is it wrong? Surely it’s better than killing people,making war  or leaving the lid off the jam all night so the wasps get into the jar?
Still,not many men get the chances that Stan got.No-one suspected this kindly,handsome practising Catholic was a womaniser despite his blue beard,green eyes,white skin and red hair.And his slim yet strong figure clad in navy trousers and white shirts all the year round.Maybe his wife did but she preferred to read Aristotle in bed and dream about mercury… those little silver balls,so cute!
Well,as we know,Stan is about to make Annie his mistress but in such a cold wet summer,where can he take her to do the deed?The shed?The public library? Cafe Nero?
I owe it to you not to tell you yet.That will give you time to think of a solution for this sweet old man and his naughty but nice neighbor. Like,how about the confessional in the local Church?
Whatever next?

I owe it to myself to keep it secret as you may come along and spoil the fun.
Stan went indoors and washed up in the boiling hot water he kept by him constantly as he owed it to himself to be ready to make a hot drink at any moment he fancied and by gum,he did fancy like no man has ever fancied before.So his daemon tells me.

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Against the junior doctor strikes

Digital art by Katherine

Why I am not in favour of the juní doctors strikes.

In 1994 British doctors were working to rule that is they were just working their contracts to the letter so they claimed.

Did the contracts entitled them to a 2 hour lunch break

I went to an emergency eye clinic in a hospital in North London I arrived at 12 noon and I was told that the doctors were taking a lunch break which they would normally have covered.

It was 2 hours and 20 minutes before a doctor came into the clinic and in that time I had gone blind in my right eye. I was sent to moorfields hospital and I did have surgery but it was very limited in its effects and subsequently th eye deteriorated and has been a very little use to me in fact it makes the other one worse.

I am grateful for the fact that my left eye was saved but it’s been a constant strain and source of fatigue to me.

If I have been sent to moorfields two hours earlier they could have operated on my eye that afternoon and consequently it would have been saved.

By the time I arrived they had started operating on someone else with a similar condition and they decided to leave me to the next day. Sadly this was too long to wait.

I’m sure that many of us support the strikes that have occurred in Britain for example the miner’s strikea etc

While my sister was suffering from lung cancer for 18 months before she died she was also called suffering by various strikes including ambulance drivers

The dangerous drug she was taking at one time made her fall and she dislocated her hit which is an emergency and very painful and she was left waiting 10 hours before an ambulance cam e

So you may be puzzled why I don’t support workers and their rights but I know now many many people of my age or younger are frightened. Even if you have a stroke it can take a long time now even when there’s no strikes happening

The argument the doctors are using is that they want their salaries restored to the 2008 level but there’s no law in economics politics in morality or nature to say at what level salaries should be.

Asking for a 29% rise is laughable when you see what ordinary people are earning I mean manual work Peter working in calls centers carers who get £10 an hour or so. There are lucky if they get 5% rise and if you understand percentages you know that the biggest salary is the more percentage vs pay risers will give you

I can still see with one eye but there are people who’ve had other things worse than I had or even died as a consequence of doctors taking action as I have described.

What use is an emergency eye clinic if it’s not staffed all day?

I know that doctors training now have to pay very high fees but even so compared to most workers they do get good pay.

One of the problems is that people who earn a lot of money like bankers lawyers doctors do not know how low the wages are for most people I think the median was now is about £33,000 per annum. If you want to send your child to a very good public school just outside north London it will cost you ,£31,000 a year. I think doctors can probably afford to pay that but most of us couldn’t however much we scrimped and saved

Maybe I’m just being egocentric but I lost my job partly because of this incident.

Will I change my mind? I don’t think so

I woke up the next day and I thought someone who put barbed wire under my eyelids but it was the stitches in my eyeball.

Don’t worry about cataract surgery because the lens of the eye is at the front and so it’s easier to do things there but the retina is at the back of the eye so it’s difficult to get access to it.

That’s why I had this stitches in my eyeball

Many people have had worse things happened to them but this was pretty bad and I still have a lot of struggles to see things and our devised some imaginative ways to cope but now I’m having problems using a computer

The BMA is giving ammunition to political parties like Reform and generally to most people on the right

In my opinion doctors are not workers in the way that coal miners, care workers, are.